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North Carolina
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North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U. S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties, the most populous municipality is Charlotte, which is the second largest banking center in the United States after New York City. The state has a range of elevations, from sea level on the coast to 6,684 feet at Mount Mitchell. The climate of the plains is strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the falls in the humid subtropical climate zone. More than 300 miles from the coast, the western, mountainous part of the state has a highland climate. North Carolina is bordered by South Carolina on the south, Georgia on the southwest, Tennessee on the west, Virginia on the north, the United States Census Bureau places North Carolina in the South Atlantic division of the southern region. So many ships have been lost off Cape Hatteras that the area is known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic, the most famous of these is the Queen Annes Revenge, which went aground in Beaufort Inlet in 1718. The coastal plain transitions to the Piedmont region along the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, the Piedmont region of central North Carolina is the states most populous region, containing the six largest cities in the state by population. It consists of rolling countryside frequently broken by hills or low mountain ridges. The Piedmont ranges from about 300 feet in elevation in the east to about 1,500 feet in the west, the western section of the state is part of the Appalachian Mountain range. Among the subranges of the Appalachians located in the state are the Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, the Black Mountains are the highest in the eastern United States, and culminate in Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet, the highest point east of the Mississippi River. North Carolina has 17 major river basins, the five basins west of the Blue Ridge Mountains flow to the Gulf of Mexico, while the remainder flow to the Atlantic Ocean. Of the 17 basins,11 originate within the state of North Carolina, but only four are contained entirely within the states border – the Cape Fear, the Neuse, the White Oak, and the Tar-Pamlico basin. Elevation above sea level is most responsible for temperature change across the state, the climate is also influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf Stream, especially in the coastal plain. These influences tend to cause warmer winter temperatures along the coast, the coastal plain averages around 1 inch of snow or ice annually, and in many years, there may be no snow or ice at all. North Carolina experiences severe weather in summer and winter, with summer bringing threat of hurricanes, tropical storms, heavy rain

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WAAV
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WAAV is a radio station broadcasting a News/Talk format. Licensed to Leland, North Carolina, USA, it serves the Wilmington area, the station is currently owned by Cumulus Media. WAAV debuted as a FM station in 1972 at 102.7, and would remain there until 1981, at that time, the station flipped from FM to AM1340, in 1984 the station moved to 980, where it remains today. The previous occupant of the 980 frequency was top 40 WKLM, because of FCC regulations regarding the number of stations one owner could have, WAAV had to be sold in 1988. Don Ansell, who was hosting the morning show Talk Of The Town, bought the station and ran it until selling it to Cumulus in 1997. After Hurricane Diana hit the area in September 1984, WAAV had just started its news/talk format, Ansell stayed on the air for 24 hours using a flashlight and a telephone. Ansell said, It put us on the map and he said to The Star-News back then, Its quite a bit different when there are no crutches. No tapes, no music, no commercials – just your voice, in September 1994, WAAV planned an FM station at 94.1 which would air sports talk. The AM station already had a number of sports programs, Roman Gabriel III, a USFL player and son of Los Angeles Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel, began hosting the stations first five-day-a-week sports talk program August 1,1994. At that time, the station aired UNC and N. C, for their two years in the area, WAAV also aired the games of the minor league baseball Port City Roosters. On April 30,1997, Cumulus Broadcasting announced its purchase of WAAV, WWQQ-FM, WXQR-FM, Ansell stayed as host of Talk of the Town. After the purchase WAAV dropped UNCW sports, UNCW games moved first to WMFD and then to WLGX before returning to WAAV three years later. On December 21,2006, Ansell retired after 22 years as WAAV morning host, on January 2,2007, Marty Shirah took over, on June 1, he moved to late afternoons. Curtis show lasted until Labor Day 2012, the Tyler Cralle Show moved from 5–7 pm to 6–10 am on September 4,2012. Official website Query the FCCs AM station database for WAAV Radio-Locator Information on WAAV Query Nielsen Audios AM station database for WAAV

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WATA
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WATA is a radio station broadcasting a Local News Talk Information format. Licensed to Boone, North Carolina, USA, the station is known as Watauga Countys Heritage Station. It emphasizes local news and announcements and broadcasts Live Play by Play Watauga High School Sports and Appalachian State University football, baseball, WATA was started by Mr. and Mrs. Roland Potter, owners of WKBC and WKBC-FM in nearby North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. WATA signed on the air in 1950, wATAs studios were originally located above the Boone bus station, at Depot and Rivers streets, where Appalachian State Universitys Broadcasting Department is now located. The station broadcast live performances by country and bluegrass artists from that location during its years of operation. Today WATA broadcasts from studios on Blowing Rock Road in Boone, in 1987, the Potters also started WZJS100. 7FM. Roland Potter sold both stations in the late 1990s to Highland Communication Associates, in September 2003 Highland sold WATA, to Aisling Broadcasting for a price of $2.2 million. This added to Aislings holdings in the High Country, as they had already purchased WECR, WECR-FM, WXIT for $2.2 million in 2003, Aisling went into receivership and George Reed of Media Services Group was appointed to manage the stations until a buyer is found. Later in the year, Curtis Media Group purchased the stations

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WBT (radio station)
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WBT is a radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina, broadcasting on the AM dial at 1110 kHz. A50, 000-watt clear-channel station, it can be heard across most of the half of North America at night. It simulcasts on WBT-FM, at 99.3 MHz in Chester, the stations studios are located at One Julian Price Place on West Morehead Street, just west of uptown Charlotte, while its transmitter is located in the southern part of the city. WBT and WBT-FM are licensed to broadcast in the HD Radio format, the station relies mostly on locally produced talk shows and offers podcasts of its local shows on its official website. It airs news, weather, and traffic reports each half-hour, syndicated programing includes Rush Limbaugh, Dave Ramsey and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. From 2009 until March 31,2011, Pete Kaliner hosted a program in the 9-midnight slot. On June 22,2011, former WSOC-TV lead anchor Vince Coakley, Coakley left after a little over a year and was replaced on July 2,2012 by Brad Krantz and Britt Whitmire, formerly of WZTK. In December 2012, morning co-host Stacey Simms left Charlottes Morning News to spend time with her family. The show would be replaced by the nationally syndicated America Now with Andy Dean in May 2013, following Entercoms takeover of WBT via LMA on October 31,2016, Keith Larson, the stations longtime 9am-noon host, was fired. The station ran a rotation of fill-in hosts while searching for his replacement before hiring former WLW fill-in, since 2005, WBT has been the flagship station of the Carolina Panthers. It also was the Panthers radio flagship from the teams 1995 inception until 1999 and it was also the Charlotte home of the University of North Carolina Tar Heels from 1977 to 1991 and again from 1995 to 2006. During the Hornets early years, whenever the Tar Heels played on the night as the Hornets. From 1991 to 1995, it was the Charlotte-area home of the Duke Blue Devils, the UNC Tar Heels returned to WBT in 2012. Past hosts include Hello Henry Bogan, Ty Boyd, Grady Cole, Mike Collins, Rockin Ray Gooding, Bob Lacey, Jason Lewis, don Russell is the stations longest-tenured personality, having worked at the station on six separate occasions since the 1970s. He currently hosts the weekend version of Charlottes Morning News, the station dates to December 1920, when Fred Laxton, Earle Gluck and Frank Bunker set up an amateur radio station in Laxtons home. Four months later, the received an experimental license as 4XD. The trio decided to go commercial in 1922, and incorporated as the Southern Radio Corporation, on April 10, the station signed on as the first fully licensed radio station south of Washington, D. C. WSB in Atlanta was the first station in the Southeast to actually broadcast, however, the Commerce Department only authorized WSB to broadcast weather reports until it received its license a few months after WBT

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WCHL (AM)
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WCHL is a radio station based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina broadcasting at 1360 AM and 97.9 FM. It is the station of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill radio sports broadcasts. Much of its programming is geared towards the Chapel Hill/Carrboro community, with a focus on local news, Chapel Hills oldest continuous broadcaster signed on January 25,1953 under the ownership of Sandy McClamroch, who went on to become the towns longest-serving mayor. Originally a 1,000 watt station, the station boosted its power to 5,000 watts in 1978. WCHL served as the point for the Village Broadcasting Companies. Over the years, the station developed a following for being highly community-oriented. The WCHL news department brought home many Associated Press awards, WCHL played top 40 music, and later adult contemporary before going news/talk in the early 1990s. In 1997, The Village Companies sold WCHL to the Raleigh-based Curtis Media Group for $400,000, however, in 2002, Vilcom regained control of its former propertys sales and programming under a local marketing agreement. Vilcom moved the back to Chapel Hill and returned the stations format to local news and talk on November 25,2002. In June 2004, Vilcom bought the back from Curtis Media Group for $775,000. Vilcoms longtime owner, Jim Heavner, sold a minority stake in WCHL to Barry Leffler, former president of WNCN in Raleigh, by this time WCHL had become a progressive talk-formatted station. Leffler became the stations CEO and managing partner, under Leffler, WCHL added more local news, an FM signal, and the Chapelboro web site. On January 21,2010, WCHLs affiliated network Air America filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, reruns of Air Americas programming continued to air until Monday, January 25 at 9PM Eastern Time. In 2014, Leffler, who had run WCHL since 2009, in August 2015, WCHL was purchased by Leslie Rudd who brought in several local investors, Chris Ehrenfeld, Jim Kitchen and Mark Vitali to form Chapel Hill Media Group, LLC. WCHL is best known as the station of North Carolina Tar Heels football and basketball. Ron Stutts, the stations morning drive-time host since 1977, hosts an hour-long pregame show before the Tar Heel Sports Network begins its coverage, WCHL also airs high school sports. WCHLs 5, 000-watt non-directional daytime signal cuts back to 1,000 watts directional toward the southeast at sunset, in 2012, WCHL expanded to the FM band by acquiring a translator station from Liberty University in Virginia. The station, previously licensed to Creedmoor, North Carolina at 98.5 FM, moved to Chapel Hill, the new signal is intended to improve nighttime coverage of the station

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WEEB
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WEEB is a radio station broadcasting a News/Talk format. Licensed to Southern Pines, North Carolina, USA, it serves the area, the station is currently owned by Pinehurst Broadcasting Corp. WEEB is also a term referring to a component used in photovoltaic systems to complete a grounding path between solar modules and the racking system rails. WEEB signed on in 1947 by Jack Spurgeon Younts and Elizabeth M. Younts as the Sandhills Community Broadcasters, WEEB originally operated on an FCC frequency of 1360 kHz and later moved to 990 kHz with a daytime power of 5000 watts. WEEB only operated sunrise to sunset, in the 70s and 80s WEEB used the slogan, The Best of Everything Radio. WEEB operated with an Adult Contemporary music format using The Entertainers as the music source. WEEB carried the Tobacco Radio Network for North Carolina News, later referred to as the North Carolina News Network, WEEB carried ABC Information News at the top of every hour and ABC Entertainment Network News at the bottom of every hour. Also a staple of WEEB was Paul Harvey News and Comment at 8, 30AM and 12, 30PM, both ABC and TN sports were broadcast as well as weather from the TN Network. On January 1,1982, Younts sold WEEB to the Celebration Radio Group until the late 1980s when the station was resold, in 1990, after WSTS in Laurinburg changed from gospel music to Top 40, WEEB changed from older and milder rock music to gospel. Jerry Stout, the former WSTS program director and morning host, today WEEB is 10,000 watts day,5,000 watts during critical hours and 26 watts at night. It is a station serving the Golf Capital of the World. WEEB is owned by Steve Leader Adams at this latest writing, Query the FCCs AM station database for WEEB Radio-Locator Information on WEEB Query Nielsen Audios AM station database for WEEB

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WGAI
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WGAI is a Gospel formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, serving Elizabeth City and the Outer Banks. WGAI is owned and operated by George Gregory, through licensee Gregory Communications License, WGAI went through many musical formats with Top 40 in the 1960s and early 1970s, Adult Contemporary in the late 1970s, Country in the mid-1980s, and Adult Contemporary again in the late 1980s. Joy Smith, daughter of famous DJ Bob Wolfman Jack Smith, was briefly an afternoon DJ at WGAI in 1989 as Joy Jack, WGAI would drop music altogether in 1994 when it began its News/Talk/Sports format. In 2015 WGAI was purchased by George Gregory, the format is Gospel and Christian Talk. The station broadcasts Gospel music and Christian talk from the stations located in Moyock, newsRadio 560 Online Query the FCCs AM station database for WGAI Radio-Locator Information on WGAI Query Nielsen Audios AM station database for WGAI

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WHDZ
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WHDZ is a community radio station broadcasting a variety format. Licensed to Buxton, North Carolina, USA, the station is owned by Radio Hatteras. The Federal Communications Commission issued a permit for the station on April 1,2005. The station was assigned the WHDZ call sign on April 13,2005, the station was used for emergency news and weather information, rebroadcasting NOAA Weather Radio station KIG-99. In late 2013, the licenses of WHDZ were transferred to non-profit organization Radio Hatteras, WHDZ and WHDX changed formats in early 2014, and now broadcasts a variety format, relying on volunteer announcers and disc jockeys to produce Hatteras Island related programming. On July 16,2015, via their Facebook page, Radio Hatteras announced that they had received permission from the FCC to move WHDXs transmitter to Waves, North Carolina, with the move, Radio Hatteras signals will cover the entirety of Hatteras Island

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WLOE
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WLOE and WMYN are two AM radio stations simulcasting a News/Talk and Christian radio format. WLOE is licensed to Eden, North Carolina and WMYN is licensed to nearby Mayodan, the stations are owned by Mayo Broadcasting and serve the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina, including the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point media market. Mike and Annette Moore run the station and host an hour in the morning. WLOE signed on the air on December 26,1946, the WLOE studios and transmitter were originally located just outside Leaksville, in the town of Spray, North Carolina. on the busy Boulevard. As it was referred to on the air. FM service was added in 1949 on FM channel 22492.7 MHz, the call letters of the FM were originally WLOE-FM The station changed its frequency to 94.5 which is the dial position now occupied by WPTI. WLOE-FM eventually changed call letters to WEAF-FM, mike Moore joined 1490 WLOE and WEAF-FM94.5 as news director in 1972. The station was sold in 1972 by Doug Craddock, the original owner, WMYN first signed on the air on July 15,1957. It originally broadcast at 500 watts as a daytime-only station, today it runs at 1000 watts by day but must power down to 68 watts at night to avoid interfering with other radio stations on 1420 kHz

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WPTI
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WPTI, is a commercial FM talk and sports radio station serving the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina, covering the Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point media market. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and is licensed to Eden and its transmitter is located in Madison, North Carolina, and its studios and offices are located on Pai Park near Interstate 40 in Greensboro. WPTI airs mostly syndicated talk shows by day and sports shows at night. At noon Rush Limbaugh is heard followed by Sean Hannity at 3 p. m, WPTI carries the Fox Sports Radio Network. Overnight, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory is heard, weekends feature both talk and sports shows, as well as paid brokered programming. National news from Fox News Radio is heard at the beginning of most hours, the station first went on the air on March 20,1949 as WLOE-FM, simulcast with its AM sister station 1490 WLOE. In the 1970s, the station switched call letters to WEAF as a music outlet. It later took the call letters WSRQ, in 1984 the station increased power to 100,000 watts and became a country music station called WWWI I-95. Later the name was changed to I-94.5, in 1986 the call letters were switched to WKLM Classy 94.5 when the station returned to beautiful music. Later, when the studios moved to Greensboro, the changed to WWMY My 94.5. WWMY switched to MOR in 1990, later changing to the new call letters WMKG, in 1992, WMKG became WNEU New Country 94.5, later changing its name to Cat Country. On September 22,1994, the station became WXRA94.5 the Rock Alternative, later in the 90s, the station began playing a mix of old and new rock and called itself The Rock Station. Around New Years Day,2001, WXRAs format moved to 100.3 FM, with 94.5 FM becoming WWCC, ratings for this format were poor. On February 24,2003, WWCC became WGBT, and flipped to a Rhythmic Top 40 format as 94.5 The Beat. On February 16,2006, at 5 p. m. after playing Dont Forget About Us by Mariah Carey, the station played Regional Mexican music from the 70s, 80s and 90s. As such, WGBT became The Triads first FM Spanish-language radio station and this made the fourth distinctly different radio format in five years to be broadcast on the 94.5 frequency in the Greensboro market. At the end of 2009, the Curtis Media Group announced that its WSJS/WSML news talk simulcast would no longer carry The Rush Limbaugh Show, on December 31,2009, WGBT became a talk station known as Rush Radio 94.5 under new calls WPTI. The station stunted with weekend-long continuous replays of The Rush Limbaugh Week in Review through New Years weekend, the Glenn Beck Program and a local show called The Morning Rush hosted by Bill Flynn and Pamela Furr debuted January 4

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WSPC
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WSPC is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Albemarle, North Carolina, USA, the station is currently owned by Stanly Communications and features programing from ABC Radio, CBS Radio and Premiere Radio Networks. WABZ radio signed on in 1946, broadcasting from the Albemarle Hotel, robert D. Raiford was program director in 1947, at age 19. While a student a Pfeiffer College in March 1949, longtime WFMY-TV personality Lee Kinard went to work at WABZ doing janitorial, later he became a DJ and producer. Kinard left Pfeiffer after one year and became an owner of the station in 1952, along with station manager Bill Page, attorney Staton Williams. Kinard left WABZ for WFMY in 1956, an FM station at 100.9 was added later. The AM station established an identity as WWWX on 1979-09-10. On 1990-02-15, the changed its call sign to WXLX. The owner in 1994 was Bill Norman, a Pfeiffer graduate who got his training at the colleges station WSPC, since the letters had become available, Norman put them on his station. Official website Query the FCCs AM station database for WSPC Radio-Locator Information on WSPC Query Nielsen Audios AM station database for WSPC

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WTKF
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WTKF is a radio station broadcasting a talk radio format. Licensed to Atlantic, North Carolina, USA, it serves the Morehead City-New Bern-Jacksonville area, WTKF signed on in 1992 as North Carolinas first FM talk-formatted station. It grew from the now-defunct WBTB/1400, which was licensed to Beaufort, as the first radio station in North Carolina to broadcast a talk format on FM radio, it boasted the slogan First In Talk. In 2002, WTKF began simulcasting its signal on Jacksonville, North Carolinas WJNC AM1240, on January 22,2008, WTKF shifted from its 7, 000-watt signal at 107.3 FM to a more-powerful 46, 000-watt signal at 107.1 FM. The station is owned by Atlantic Ridge Telecasters. Official Website Query the FCCs FM station database for WTKF Radio-Locator information on WTKF Query Nielsen Audios FM station database for WTKF

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WWNC
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WWNC is a radio station in Asheville, North Carolina. It transmits at 5000 Watts of power and it currently has a News/Talk format and is affiliated with Fox News Radio. WWNC is under ownership of iHeartMedia, Inc, WWNC, whose call letters stand for Wonderful Western North Carolina, signed on the air February 21,1927, as Ashevilles first radio station, broadcasting from the Vanderbilt Hotel. Other broadcast locations have included the Flat Iron Building and the Citizen-Times building, in its early days WWNC, started by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce, provided weather and road reports, and music at night. Jimmie Rodgers was among the stars who performed on the station, on October 10,1931, WWNC changed its network affiliation from CBS to NBC. On September 10,1936, President Franklin Roosevelt spoke at McCormick Field, the first time the world heard of Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys was February 2,1939, at 3,30 pm when the group played a fifteen-minute segment on Mountain Music Time. At the time, WWNC was an NBC affiliate, owned by the Asheville Citizen-Times. Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys played the daily 3, 30-3,45 Mountain Music spot until April 1,1939, at one time, the station was home to Amos and Andy, Fibber McGee and Molly, and Jack Benny. In 1938, WWNC was one of the stations airing Orson Welles The War of the Worlds. Prior to 1969, when the changed to country music. In the days before FM became popular, WWNC was sometimes the most popular station in the United States with an Arbitron share over 40 percent, in 2002, WWNC changed its format from country music to news/talk, taking over talk shows previously heard on WTZY. In 2004, Rhodarmer retired as WWNC morning host after more than 40 years in the position and 50 years as a station employee, in 1979, he had 56 percent of the audience according to Arbitron, more than any other local radio personality. His theme song was Carolina in the Morning, on June 18,2010, many of the former DJs had a reunion. They included Rhodarmer, Frank Byrd, Wiley Carpenter, John Roten, John Anderson, Roten now produces the morning show. On January 23,2012, Pete Kaliner, who worked at WBT in Charlotte, North Carolina from 1999 to 2011, sean Hannity moved from 3 P. M. back to 6 P. M. where his show had been since Matt Mittan left the station. Kaliner said his show would feature a discussion of all things in Western North Carolina. WWNC official website Query the FCCs AM station database for WWNC Radio-Locator Information on WWNC Query Nielsen Audios AM station database for WWNC

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WXIT
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WXIT is a radio station that broadcasts in a top 40/CHR format. Licensed to Blowing Rock, in the U. S. state of North Carolina, the station is currently owned by High Country Ventures, LLC and features programming from CBS Radio, Westwood One and Jones Radio Network. WXIT has been granted an FCC construction permit to move to a new site, decrease day power to 4,200 watts. After buying WJTP in 1996 and changing its letters to WECR, Steve Rondinaros Rondinaro Broadcasting started WECR-FM, aisling purchased these stations, as well as WATA and WZJS, which were owned by Highland Communication Associates. Aisling went into receivership in early 2008, george Reed of Media Services Group was appointed to manage the stations until a buyer was found. On August 20,2016 WXIT changed their format from news/talk to top 40/CHR, branded as Pulse Boone

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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis

North Carolina
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North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U. S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties, the most populous municipality is Charlot

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Deer in the Eno River as it flows through the Piedmont region of North Carolina

WAAV
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WAAV is a radio station broadcasting a News/Talk format. Licensed to Leland, North Carolina, USA, it serves the Wilmington area, the station is currently owned by Cumulus Media. WAAV debuted as a FM station in 1972 at 102.7, and would remain there until 1981, at that time, the station flipped from FM to AM1340, in 1984 the station moved to 980, whe

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WATA
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WATA is a radio station broadcasting a Local News Talk Information format. Licensed to Boone, North Carolina, USA, the station is known as Watauga Countys Heritage Station. It emphasizes local news and announcements and broadcasts Live Play by Play Watauga High School Sports and Appalachian State University football, baseball, WATA was started by M

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WBT (radio station)
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WBT is a radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina, broadcasting on the AM dial at 1110 kHz. A50, 000-watt clear-channel station, it can be heard across most of the half of North America at night. It simulcasts on WBT-FM, at 99.3 MHz in Chester, the stations studios are located at One Julian Price Place on West Morehead Street, just west of uptown

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2007 - WBT's transmitter just south of Uptown Charlotte, NC

WCHL (AM)
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WCHL is a radio station based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina broadcasting at 1360 AM and 97.9 FM. It is the station of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill radio sports broadcasts. Much of its programming is geared towards the Chapel Hill/Carrboro community, with a focus on local news, Chapel Hills oldest continuous broadcaster signed on Jan

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WEEB
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WEEB is a radio station broadcasting a News/Talk format. Licensed to Southern Pines, North Carolina, USA, it serves the area, the station is currently owned by Pinehurst Broadcasting Corp. WEEB is also a term referring to a component used in photovoltaic systems to complete a grounding path between solar modules and the racking system rails. WEEB s

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WGAI
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WGAI is a Gospel formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, serving Elizabeth City and the Outer Banks. WGAI is owned and operated by George Gregory, through licensee Gregory Communications License, WGAI went through many musical formats with Top 40 in the 1960s and early 1970s, Adult Contemporary in the late 1970

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WHDZ
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WHDZ is a community radio station broadcasting a variety format. Licensed to Buxton, North Carolina, USA, the station is owned by Radio Hatteras. The Federal Communications Commission issued a permit for the station on April 1,2005. The station was assigned the WHDZ call sign on April 13,2005, the station was used for emergency news and weather inf

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WLOE
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WLOE and WMYN are two AM radio stations simulcasting a News/Talk and Christian radio format. WLOE is licensed to Eden, North Carolina and WMYN is licensed to nearby Mayodan, the stations are owned by Mayo Broadcasting and serve the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina, including the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point media market. Mike and Annette Moo

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WPTI
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WPTI, is a commercial FM talk and sports radio station serving the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina, covering the Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point media market. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and is licensed to Eden and its transmitter is located in Madison, North Carolina, and its studios and offices are located on Pai Park near

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WSPC
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WSPC is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Albemarle, North Carolina, USA, the station is currently owned by Stanly Communications and features programing from ABC Radio, CBS Radio and Premiere Radio Networks. WABZ radio signed on in 1946, broadcasting from the Albemarle Hotel, robert D. Raiford was program dir

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WTKF
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WTKF is a radio station broadcasting a talk radio format. Licensed to Atlantic, North Carolina, USA, it serves the Morehead City-New Bern-Jacksonville area, WTKF signed on in 1992 as North Carolinas first FM talk-formatted station. It grew from the now-defunct WBTB/1400, which was licensed to Beaufort, as the first radio station in North Carolina t

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WWNC
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WWNC is a radio station in Asheville, North Carolina. It transmits at 5000 Watts of power and it currently has a News/Talk format and is affiliated with Fox News Radio. WWNC is under ownership of iHeartMedia, Inc, WWNC, whose call letters stand for Wonderful Western North Carolina, signed on the air February 21,1927, as Ashevilles first radio stati

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WXIT
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WXIT is a radio station that broadcasts in a top 40/CHR format. Licensed to Blowing Rock, in the U. S. state of North Carolina, the station is currently owned by High Country Ventures, LLC and features programming from CBS Radio, Westwood One and Jones Radio Network. WXIT has been granted an FCC construction permit to move to a new site, decrease d

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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usu

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Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2006, showing a quartet lineup for a rock band (from left to right: bassist, lead vocalist, drummer, and guitarist).